TV5040:03
Epidemiology
| Townsville | HECS Band 3 |
26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 1.
Available to graduate students.
Staff: Dr L Owens.
This subject includes a consideration of epidemiological terms; methods used to describe occurrence of disease and measure morbidity and mortality; sources of epidemiological data; the concept and measurement of cause and effect; validity and types of diagnostic tests; design of epidemiological studies; and economics of disease.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the often complex patterns of causes and effects of disease;
- know sources of epidemiological data and how to describe and prepare data for analysis;
- understand concepts of sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of diagnostic tests;
- design surveys, case control studies and cohort studies, and experiments using between subject, factorial and repeated measures designs;
- be aware of sources of bias in designing experiments and interpreting data;
- be aware of economic measures applied to assessing costs and benefits of disease control.
Assessment by two written assignments (30%); five problems (15%); a two-hour written examination (55%).